Hot Topics:

Jon Hamm hopes Ferguson will come out stronger

Louise Dixon Associated Press

Updated:
08/21/2014 04:14:40 PM EDT

Click photo to enlarge

Actor and St. Louis native Jon Hamm addresses the media prior to a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in St. Louis. Hamm is being honored tonight by the Cardinals with a give-away promotion, and portions of proceeds from the purchase of promotional tickets being donated to St. Jude Children's Medical Research Hospital in his honor. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

LONDON (AP) — Jon Hamm, a St. Louis native, says he hopes "cooler heads prevail" in the Missouri city of Ferguson and "people come through it for the better."

Talking about the riots that followed the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer, Hamm says "it's difficult to watch because it's my hometown."

But the "Mad Men" star supports the protesters. He says "they have a legitimate reason to protest and they're exercising their right to do that and so hopefully, in the end, people will come through it stronger."

He said cities should not "be measured on how they have failed, but how they get through and how they clean up after their mistakes."

Hamm was in London for a screening Thursday of the movie "Million Dollar Arm."

Welcome to your discussion forum: Sign in with a Disqus account or your social networking account for your comment to be posted immediately, provided it meets the guidelines. (READ HOW.)
Comments made here are the sole responsibility of the person posting them; these comments do not reflect the opinion of The Sun. So keep it civil.